The source code of Stellarium releases is available as source packages for Linux, compressed in .tar.gz format. Due to the nature of the packaging script, the code in the packages can be used to build Stellarium on all three platforms (this is valid for at least the 0.10.* series).

The source packages are available from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/ Stellarium's downloads page at SourceForge], in the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-sources/ "Stellarium-sources"] folder.

Stellarium has gone through three different revision control systems through its history, which means that its code is in three public repositories on two different websites (SourceForge and Launchpad). Starting from the most recent:

*'''Bazaar''' (BZR) - [http://bazaar.canonical.com website], [http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Download download]. The Windows packages includes TortoiseBazaar that integrates in Windows Explorer (just like TortoiseSVN) and Bazaar Explorer, so you won't have to use the command line. Bazaar Explorer is included also in the Mac OS X installer.

If you want to create a personal Bazaar branch that can be merged with the trunk, you need to register in Launchpad. Here is what such a user branch looks like: [http://code.launchpad.net/~daggerstab/stellarium/comets-asteroids-importer].

The trunk code contains the code of the plug-ins that come with Stellarium, as they are statically linked at build time. Their code can be found in the "plugins" sub-directory ([http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/files/head%3A/plugins/ code browser for /trunk/plugins]). As of October 2010, this includes:

The trunk code contains the code of the plug-ins that come with Stellarium, as they are statically linked at build time. Their code can be found in the "plugins" sub-directory ([http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/files/head%3A/plugins/ code browser for /trunk/plugins]). As of October 2010, this includes:

Insticksmoduler

The trunk code contains the code of the plug-ins that come with Stellarium, as they are statically linked at build time. Their code can be found in the "plugins" sub-directory (code browser for /trunk/plugins). As of October 2010, this includes: